Wind Quintet No. 4 is presented here in a 1998 New World Records recording by the Dorian Wind Quintet.
For distinguished musical composition by an American in any of the larger forms including chamber, orchestral, choral, opera, song, dance, or other forms of musical theatre, which has had its first performance in the United States during the year, One thousand dollars ($1,000).
Wind Quintet IV, by George Perle
Premiered on October 2, 1985 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.
Winning Work
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Music in 1986:
George Rochberg
Premiered on March 13, 1986 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The Jury
The Jury
William Schuman(Chair)*
Composer
Martin Bernheimer*
Music Critic, Los Angeles Times
Leon Kirchner*
Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Harvard University
Winners in Music
Stephen Albert
Premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra on January 17, 1985.
Bernard Rands
Premiered by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra on June 8, 1983.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on May 5, 1982 in Alice Tully Hall, New York City.
Roger Sessions
First performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 23, 1981, Seiji Ozawa, conductor.
1986 Prize Winners
Jimmy Breslin
For columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens.
Donal Henahan
For his music criticism.